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    Second Amendment Foundation Helps Illinois Force A Concealed Carry Law



    SAF Helps Illinois Force A Concealed Carry Law

    Today the Second Amendment Foundation won a significant victory for concealed carry when the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals let stand a December ruling by a three-judge panel of the court that forces Illinois to adopt a concealed carry law, thus affirming that the right to bear arms exists outside the home.

    The ruling came in Moore v. Madigan, a case filed by SAF. The December opinion that now stands was written by Judge Richard Posner, who gave the Illinois legislature 180 days to "craft a new gun law that will impose reasonable limitations, consistent with the public safety and the Second Amendment...on the carrying of guns in public." That clock is ticking.
    Illinois lawmakers need to create some kind of licensing system or face the prospect of not having any regulations at all when Judge Posner's deadline arrives. They need to act. They can no longer run and hide from this mandate.
    We were delighted with Judge Posner's ruling in December and today's decision by the entire circuit to allow his ruling to stand is a major victory, and not just for gun owners in Illinois. Judge Posner's ruling affirmed that the right to keep and bear arms, itself, extends beyond the boundary of one's front door.

    In December, Judge Posner wrote, "The right to 'bear' as distinct from the right to 'keep' arms is unlikely to refer to the home. To speak of 'bearing' arms within one's home would at all times have been an awkward usage. A right to bear arms thus implies a right to carry a loaded gun outside the home."

    Judge Posner subsequently added, "To confine the right to be armed to the home is to divorce the Second Amendment from the right of self-defense described in Heller and McDonald."

    It is now up to the legislature to craft a statute that recognizes the right of ordinary citizens to carry outside the home, without a sea of red tape or a requirement to prove any kind of need beyond the cause of personal protection.

    The ruling also affects a similar case filed by the National Rifle Association known as Shepard v. Madigan.

    Together, we can preserve the Constitutional rights our Founding Fathers intended our people to have forever.

    For more information about SAF go to www.SAF.org
    Thank you. I know I can count on you.

    Sincerely yours,

    Alan M. Gottlieb
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    Appeals court lets stand Illinois concealed carry ruling

    By Associated Press February 22, 2013 12:17 pm

    CHICAGO - A federal appeals court has rejected Illinois' request to reconsider a ruling that found the state's concealed carry weapons ban unconstitutional.

    State Attorney General Lisa Madigan had asked for the entire 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to consider the case after a three-judge panel in December gave lawmakers until June 8 to legalize the concealed carry of firearms.

    Madigan argued that the ruling conflicts with decisions by other federal appellate courts and goes beyond what the U.S. Supreme Court has held.

    Illinois is the only state that still bans concealed firearms.

    Gun-rights advocates say the prohibition violates the Second Amendment. In the December ruling, Judge Richard Posner agreed, saying there's nothing to suggest that crime in Illinois is different enough to justify its ban.
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